Alain Franc

4.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
62 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Alain Franc is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology and Biomaterials. According to data from OpenAlex, Alain Franc has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 13 papers in Ecology and 11 papers in Biomaterials. Recurrent topics in Alain Franc's work include Forest ecology and management (13 papers), Diatoms and Algae Research (11 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (11 papers). Alain Franc is often cited by papers focused on Forest ecology and management (13 papers), Diatoms and Algae Research (11 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (11 papers). Alain Franc collaborates with scholars based in France, Sweden and Morocco. Alain Franc's co-authors include Sven G. Nilsson, Paolo Menozzi, Jan Bengtsson, Agnès Bouchez, Frédéric Rimet, François Keck, Pierre‐Emmanuel Courty, Jean Garbaye, Laurent Bergès and Lenaïg Kermarrec and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Alain Franc

62 papers receiving 2.8k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Biodiversity, disturbances, ecosystem function and management of European forests

2000 665 citations Alain Franc et al. profile →
phylosignal: an R package to measure, test, and explore the phylogenetic signal

2016 359 citations François Keck, Frédéric Rimet et al. profile →

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Simple approaches for evaluation of OTU quality based on dissimilarity arrays 2024 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Marie‐Josée Cros, Jean‐Marc Frigério, Nathalie Peyrard, Alain Franc	1
2	Dataset of Phanerozoic continental climate and Köppen–Geiger climate classes 2022 ·Data in Brief ·Alexandre Pohl, (unknown), Alain Franc, Pierre Sepulchre, Christopher R. Scotese	7
3	Quantitative comparison of geological data and model simulations constrains early Cambrian geography and climate 2021 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), Alexandre Pohl, Mark Williams, Yannick Donnadieu, Thomas H. P. Harvey, Christopher R. Scotese, Pierre Sepulchre, Alain Franc, Thijs R.A. Vandenbroucke	26
4	Diatom DNA metabarcoding for ecological assessment: Comparison among bioinformatics pipelines used in six European countries reveals the need for standardization 2020 ·The Science of The Total Environment ·(unknown), Laure Apothéloz‐Perret‐Gentil, (unknown), Teofana Chonova, Alain Franc, Jean‐Marc Frigério, Martyn Kelly, (unknown), Martin Pfannkuchen, Sebastian Proft, (unknown), Valentin Vasselon, Jonas Zimmermann, Maria Kahlert	55
5	Taming the Wild West of Molecular Tools Application in Aquatic Research and Biomonitoring 2019 ·Biodiversity Information Science and Standards ·Alexander Weigand, Agnès Bouchez, Pieter Boets, Kat Bruce, Fedor Čiampor, Torbjørn Ekrem, Diego Fontaneto, Alain Franc, Daniel Hering, Maria Kahlert, Emre Keskin, Patricia Mergen, Jan Pawłowski, (unknown), Florian Leese	3
6	Virome analysis of two sympatric bat species (Desmodus rotundus and Molossus molossus) in French Guiana 2017 ·PLoS ONE ·(unknown), (unknown), Benoı̂t de Thoisy, Alain Franc, Edith Darcissac, (unknown), Christiane Bouchier, Vincent Lacoste, Anne Lavergne	35
7	R-Syst::diatom: an open-access and curated barcode database for diatoms and freshwater monitoring 2016 ·Database ·Frédéric Rimet, Philippe Chaumeil, François Keck, Lenaïg Kermarrec, Valentin Vasselon, Maria Kahlert, Alain Franc, Agnès Bouchez	73
8	Plastome data reveal multiple geographic origins of Quercus Group Ilex 2016 ·PeerJ ·Marco Cosimo Simeone, Guido W. Grimm, Alessio Papini, Federico Vessella, (unknown), Enrico Tordoni, Roberta Piredda, Alain Franc, Thomas Denk	72
9	Linking phylogenetic similarity and pollution sensitivity to develop ecological assessment methods: a test with river diatoms 2016 ·Journal of Applied Ecology ·François Keck, Agnès Bouchez, Alain Franc, Frédéric Rimet	15
10	When is Sampling Complete? The Effects of Geographical Range and Marker Choice on Perceived Diversity in Nitzschia palea (Bacillariophyta) 2014 ·Protist ·Frédéric Rimet, Rosa Trobajo, David G. Mann, Lenaïg Kermarrec, Alain Franc, Isabelle Domaizon, Agnès Bouchez	31
11	Multiple nuclear genes stabilize the phylogenetic backbone of the genusQuercus 2014 ·Systematics and Biodiversity ·(unknown), Guido W. Grimm, Emmanuelle Jousselin, Vincent Berry, Alain Franc, Antoine Kremer	108
12	Parasitism and maintenance of diversity in a fungal vegetative incompatibility system: the role of selection by deleterious cytoplasmic elements 2011 ·Ecology Letters ·(unknown), Cécile Robin, Alain Franc	22
13	Robust scaling in ecosystems and the meltdown of patch size distributions before extinction 2010 ·Ecology Letters ·Sonia Kéfi, Max Rietkerk, Manojit Roy, Alain Franc, Peter C. de Ruiter, Mercedes Pascual	90
14	Sex-biased dispersal promotes adaptive parental effects 2010 ·BMC Evolutionary Biology ·Emmanuelle Revardel, Alain Franc, Rémy J. Petit	19
15	A simple model for the dynamics of a host–parasite–hyperparasite interaction 2007 ·Journal of Theoretical Biology ·Andrew Morozov, Cécile Robin, Alain Franc	27
16	Modeling Forest Dynamics with a Combined Matrix/Individual-Based Model 2002 ·Forest Science ·Nicolas Picard, Avner Bar‐Hen, Alain Franc	7
17	Gavilán: un modelo para simulación del crecimiento, rendimiento y cambios florísticos de los bosques centroamericanos dominados por Pentaclethra macroloba 2001 ·LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) ·Almeida Sitoe, Bryan Finegan, Alain Franc	1
18	Bimodality for Plant Sizes and Spatial Pattern in Cohorts: The Role of Competition and Site Conditions 2001 ·Theoretical Population Biology ·Alain Franc	6
19	Height growth, wood density and dry fibre weight of four 33 year-old Douglas-fir provenances 1997 ·SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository ·Philippe Rozenberg, Alain Franc, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	2
20	Multiway arrays some algebraic remarks 1989 ·Alain Franc	3

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